Looking back at some of the stock market darlings of 2025, this is Motley Full Money.

Welcome to Motley Fool Money. My name is Tyler Crow, and today I'm joined by longtime contributors,

Matt Frankel and John Quast. The end of the year is sneaking up on us pretty quick, and kind of

like, I don't know, there's some sort of instinctual feel as investors to look back at the year as December rolls around and take stock,

if you will, and don't mind my pun, of the stock market darlings of 2025. What did well? What

didn't? What's worked? And what could work again in 2026? So normally we like to do some

analysis of companies, a little bit of a reaction to, you know,

things in the news, but we're going to change it up a little bit on this theme of looking back,

and we're going to look at some of the companies that did incredibly well in 2025, specifically

companies that actually saw their stocks double in this year to date as of our recording here on December 11th. Now, we can't do all of it,

because there was more than 300 companies that more than doubled this year. So what we did

is we each picked one stock that we think will continue to do incredibly well in 2026, despite

the large run-up this year. And at the same time, we're also going to pick one of that list that had a great year,

but 2026 we're not so certain about.

And of course, we'll finish out the show with stocks on our radar because maybe they didn't

double, but we like them anyways.

So let's start off on an optimistic note here in 2026, and the companies that we saw do incredibly

well in 2025 and what will do well next year. Matt, kick us off.

Yeah, so, I mean, well, first, the fact that we've had 326 public companies double or much

more in some cases is pretty remarkable. One thing that I asked when looking at this list is, is the

business or arts opportunities twice as strong as they were when we started this year?

And that really narrowed it down. I'll do somewhat of a contrarian take here because I can't,

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